3. Self Management Goal Sheets

Summa Health System developed this worksheet to assist patients with diabetes in setting goals for controlling their diabetes.

Setting a Self-Management Goal—Family Medicine Center of Akron

What is self management?

Self management is what you do every day; you decide what to eat, you decide whether to exercise, you decide if and when you will check your blood sugar or blood pressure, and you decide if you will take your medications.

Every one does self management, but the best self management leads to good control of diabetes and better health.

What is good diabetes control?

Good control for diabetes means:

Your hemoglobin A 1 C is less than 7.

Your systolic blood pressure (top number) is less than 130.

Your diastolic blood pressure (bottom number) is less than 70.

Your LDL (bad) cholesterol is less than 100.

You do not have frequent low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) attacks.

If your diabetes is not in good control, something needs to change.

Some changes that you can do to help get diabetes into good control include: